Brand New!! 22Nd January - Who's Made A Rank This Week?

David Hockney 
The Arrival of Spring inward Woldgate, East Yorkshire inward 2011 (twenty eleven) - 2 January 
iPad drawing printed on paper 
144.1 x 108 cm; 1 of a 52-part work 
Courtesy of the artist 
Copyright David Hockney

This postal service this calendar week has rather a slant towards Hockney, digital fine art on an iPad together with pastels - which pretty much reflects my week.

His iPad drawings together with how he has reproduced them for the exhibition actually stimulated me to investigate further

Art Blogs together with Artists

Digital art

Sight of the iPad Sketches at the Hockney exhibition on Tuesday prompted a cry for to discovery out how he prints them therefore large together with the buy of a 2nd stylus for my iPad - having lost the previous 1 inside the initiative off 24 hours!

• I tackled the impress size first. How to arrive at a large 300dpi TiFF impress of an iPad sketch recorded what I could discovery out yesteryear scouring the Internet.  It also prompted 2 comments which suggested Perfect Resize is the software for the job.
• "Pastel" iPad sketch every bit a movie is my animated tape of what I did to instruct a tape of how I lay downwardly pastel strokes onto my blog.  Except the pastel strokes were made yesteryear a stylus piece I was using the Brushes app on my iPad.  
• The fine art of the app: plant made on iPads together with iPhones is a slideshow yesteryear the Guardian of art sent inward yesteryear our readers that was created using diverse apps on the iPhone together with iPad.  It's yesteryear means of response to Hockney - making the betoken that he's not the alone creative someone using an iPad to create novel work. 

Drawing together with Sketching

• It was the 34th Sketchcrawl yesterday - here's a distich of impressive contributions
• These are watercolour sketches yesteryear Enrique Flores 4ojos who was inward Seville
• Lynne Chapman (An Illustrator's Life For Me!) who along alongside Sketchcrawl North had a Mad Hatters Tea Party!
• Lynne was extremely diligent inward sketching a weekend away alongside her hubby - see Robin Hood's Bay inward the Frost

Lunch inward the Friends Room
8" x 10", pen together with sepia ink together with coloured pencils inward Moleskine sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

• I was sketching at:
• The RA Friends Room - Lunch inward the RA Friends Room
• The National Gallery - drawing children drawing art

Now pull this Turner painting....
8" x 10", pen together with ink together with coloured pencils inward Moleskine Sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

Landscape art

• More Hockney:
• David Hockney RA talks nearly landscape painting includes a rather dainty interview alongside him addition links to where you lot tin run across him paint
• Hockney: sketchbooks, iPad sketching together with the Yosemite Valley highlights how Hockney seems to approach his sketching together with icon of landscapes using sketchbooks together with iPads.

This is a fast slideshow of Hockney creating some other icon inward the serial related to the trees which were cutting down. From this you lot tin run across how he plant from smaller sketches both to instruct the icon started together with also to refine the terminal color palette. The sketches are essential to both the composition together with design, the tonal values together with the color palette.

• I dear what Stuart Brocklehurst is doing alongside his landscape prints on his weblog Wildlife alongside Pen together with Brush

Pastels together with Coloured Pencils

• I had luncheon alongside good known pastel tutor, writer together with creative someone Jackie Simmonds (Jackie Simmonds Artyfacts) this week.  Hence a renewed involvement inward pastels.  
• She told me nearly a grouping on Facebook Passionate About Pastels - National together with International 
• I together with therefore institute some other Pastel Society of America
• and discovered that The Pastel Society has a Facebook Event Page for its Love Pastels 2012 Exhibition side yesteryear side month.
• Ester Roi (Ester Roi Fine Art) has a novel slideshow of a work which has lately been selected the Explore This! 8 exhibitiion 

Sculpture

• It's non odd for people to sketch the dying or to create decease masks or sculptures later they receive got died.  It's a means of remembering who they are together with what they looked like. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Guardian article Jane McAdam Freud: a good daytime to my father is an line concern human relationship of an interview with Jane McAdam Freud talking nearly life alongside Lucian Freud and her novel exhibition (see Art Exhibitions).  It explains how she dealt alongside her feelings nearly the decease of her father Lucian Freud through sketches together with sculptures.
• Laurent Debraux is a kinetic sculptor living inward Paris who wrote me a dainty missive of the alphabet explaining nearly his recent successes inward recent exhibitions.  You tin run across YouTube Videos of his operate - together with this was my favourite

Art Business

• Barney Davey (Art Print Issues yesteryear Barney Davey) suggests 
• Ten Art Marketing Points to Ponder for 2012
• 12 Mistakes Every Artist Should Avoid In 2012
• Wildlife Art Journal suggests that With Magazine Advertising, Artists together with Galleries Need To Ask Tough Questions
• The New York Times suggests in Online Shoppers Are Rooting for the Little Guy that many consumers are moving their custom to smaller online retailers every bit they view, alongside some disgust, the means inward which the giant online e-retailers crush out the competition.  I sure enough back upwards "local stores" (whether B&M or online) together with would rattling much recommend others to do likewise. 

Art Economy together with Art Collectors

• Who's Zhang Daqian? You may good inquire - particularly later reading that Zhang Daqian Surpasses Picasso to Become the World's Best-Selling Artist.  It's worth noting that he is also regarded every bit a main forger.
• This is a wonderful headline yesteryear ArtInfo - On-the-Lam Gallerist Arrested for the Biggest Art Swindle inward Australian History - it sure enough grabbed my attention!
• A novel corporation called The Curator's Eye approached me finally week.  It looks similar online fine art dealer to me - somewhere inbetween eBay together with Christies.  I'm non quite sure how they instruct away alongside maxim they are liable for naught - what happens if their site is used to dispose of stolen goods?

Curator Services are intended for individual collectors of arts together with antiquities, fine art or antiques dealers or resellers or appraisers, every bit good every bit those educators, curators, or other professionals associated alongside museums or cultural institutions.

Art Competitions

Call for Entries

• This calendar week I posted a summary of 
• the RA Summer Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries
• the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries
• A number of fine art competitions unopen to entries this calendar week together with I also updated my weblog page - Major Great Britain Art Competitions 2012 - which directly lists competitions inward the monastic say of the deadlines for entries.  Hopefully this makes it a flake easier to role every bit a quick reference.
• A reminder for all those hoping to submit operate to the BP Portrait Award 2012 (First Prize £25,000) - you've got precisely over 3 weeks left every bit the registration deadline is xiii Feb 2012 - see Call for Entries: BP Portrait Award 2012 and, if you lot desire to run across what the exhibition looks similar together with what kind of operate gets selected run across my video BP Portrait Award 2010 Exhibition.m4v
• This is a rattling light-green fine art competition. The 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) international pattern contest opened at the outset of January. LAGINYC 2012 is an ideas contest to pattern a site-specific populace artwork for Freshkills Park (in New York state) that, inward add-on to its conceptual beauty, has the powerfulness to harness release energy cleanly from nature together with convert it to electricity for the utility grid.

Art Exhibitions

Exhibitions inward Art Galleries together with Museums - London / UK

• Review: David Hockney RA - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Bigger Picture.  
• I've been maxim non rattling dainty things nearly Alistair Sooke (David Hockney succumbs to hubris + video of the exhibition) together with Adrian Searle (David Hockney landscapes: The wold is non enough) always since I read read their ungenerous reviews of the exhibition.  In my persuasion they but don't "get it".  All I tin think is that mayhap they don't come upwards from the North, don't travel out into the province plenty and/or receive got never tried plein air icon or creating rattling large plant from studies! 
• In the meantime, Yorkshire people do "get it" together with are much to a greater extent than impressed - see David Hockney paintings 'make you lot desire to travel home' to Yorkshire together with David Hockney - Home is where the ticker is

Perhaps it’s a generational thing, but I don’t empathize paintings similar these. Fresh, brilliant together with perfectly delightful, they are much likewise polite together with unthinkingly happy for my taste: if they offering a vision of arcadia, it is a mindless one. Moreover, they resemble the sorts of landscapes that nosotros await from amateur sun painters. Hockney is anything but that – yet whatever game he is playing hither eludes me.Alastair Sooke

Two openings inward the close future

• Ragamala Paintings from India: Poetry, Passion, Song opens at the Dulwich Picture Gallery on Midweek 25 Jan 2012 together with continues until 27 May 2012.  A ragamala is a prepare of miniature paintings which depict Indian music together with connect the visual together with aural.
• Lucian Freud My Father A personal portrayal: Sculpture yesteryear Jane McAdam Freud opens at the Freud Museum side yesteryear side calendar week 25 Jan 2012 - four March 2012
• The Watercolours Art Fair is at the Science Museum inward early on February

Exhibitions inward Art Galleries together with Museums - North America

• "Pastel" iPad sketch every bit a movie describes how to instruct your animated moving-picture demo inward the Brushes app on your iPad on to your blog.  It's a flake circuitous but gets in that place inward the end.  I'm guessing in that place powerfulness live a simpler means to do this?  Any suggestions?
• Karen Margulis (Laying it on Thick...A Recipe for Thick Pastel Ground
• Silk Aquatint: The Captain's Cabin is another impeccable postal service yesteryear Belinda del Pesco (Belinda del Pesco Fine Art)'s nearly how to impress fine art - alongside lots of tips thrown in.  This fourth dimension she's tackling a silk aquatint.

Art Materials together with Equipment

• I bought my 2nd stylus - see Product review: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 stylus for iPad sketching #1.  I'm aiming non to lose it inside 24 hours this time!

Canson Mi-Teintes Touch - sanded textures board

• Canson Mi-Teintes Touch Paper is a novel newspaper board alongside a sanded abrasive surface suitable for  various media together with of item involvement to pastel artists.
• Jackie Simmonds (Canson Mi-Teintes Touch paper.  This is a newspaper board alongside a sanded texture.  She's looked at it from the perspective of a pastel creative someone who likes to role mixed media for underpaintings
• Karen Margulis (Guess How Many Layers I got on Canson Touch? together with How Wet Can it Get? My Review of Canson Mi-Teintes Touch business office 2
• I came across an fine art contest which wanted all artwork submitted to live contained inward a Stiffybag or similar.  Naturally I had to facial expression them up.......
• Stillman & Bern seem to live the novel cry beingness bandied around when it comes to premium character Sketchbooks which receive got practiced character paper.  They also receive got a Facebook page - where people are showing off what they've done using dissimilar sketchbooks - together with are also on Twitter @StillmanandBirn.  They're non yet available inward the Great Britain - but I'm rattling fussy nearly the newspaper inward my sketchbooks together with piece I'm totally devoted to my Moleskines I'd live rattling happy to exam them alongside coloured pencils.......  

Art Studios

• I came across this article on the Grumbacher inhouse magazine Thalo  - Show together with Tell - Studio Do's together with Don'ts - it's nearly what you lot should live doing if somebody of import comes to run across you lot inward your studio
• If you lot receive got a studio projection inward heed for 2012 don't forget to permit me know nearly it when you lot start blogging the planning/execution/results.

Book reviews

• Book review: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Yorkshire Sketchbook yesteryear David Hockney (For Hockney together with sketchbook fans) - RECOMMENDED - This is the nearest you'll always instruct to treatment a Hockney sketchbook.

Copyright

This calendar week the Internet joined belatedly inward the uprisings of the mutual people.  On Midweek a lot of people unopen their sites on the Internet together with lobbied difficult for a rethink on what was beingness proposed inward the SOPA together with PIPA bills inward forepart of

• The calendar week the spider web changed Washington is a practiced a means to summarise the momentous backtracking which happened finally calendar week together with is the championship of the postal service summing upwards what happened on O'Reilly Radar - a tech weblog which provides insightful comment on emerging technologies together with network developments
• Other posts also worth a read inward relation to the backtracking yesteryear both the Senate together with Congress re the SOPA together with PIPA due to the collective activity yesteryear a huge number of people.  
• This is why SOPA is an number on Read//Write/Web - What You Need to Know About SOPA inward 2012
• PC Mag's Top five Objections to SOPA, PIPA
• A Great Britain perspective from The Guardian Sopa together with Pipa votes shelved later Congress climbs downwardly on piracy bills
• and for a European perspective Sopa is bad legislation, tweets EU's network tsar

Kroes favours a less invasive approach, tweeting: "Speeding is illegal too, but you lot don't set speed bumps on the motorway."

• Interestingly - together with this is what should really worry the media behomeths together with the U.S. politicians who've been attempting to wield a sledgehammer - the fastest growing political grouping inward Europe is that started by Rick Falkvinge: the Swedish radical leading the struggle over spider web freedoms.

Also inward the intelligence were Update on the California Resale Royalty Class Action.  I'd dear to withdraw heed how the 2 auction houses response to questions from artists' lawyers when asked why do they together with therefore pay out resale royalties inside the Great Britain where the police on the Artists Resale Right is mandatory.

and finally...........

This calendar week Jonathan Jones of the Guardian highlighted The Art of the Remakes - and, inward particular, the fine art weblog called Remake/Submissions.  Basically the notion is that a operate of fine art is recreated yesteryear ordinary people today - or do I hateful contemporary artists?